The future of water

[Harpo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1649720392561442819

 

[Danny McG]

 

[Harpo]

Egypt is building a new river

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/industries/construction/egypt-plans-to-build-worlds-longest-artificial-river-bigger-than-the-nile-report

 

[Harpo]

Seaflooding

The Surprising Solution to Mitigate Climate Change, Create More Life, and Grow the Economy

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[Harpo]

‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’

The long read: While the world becomes drier, profit and pollution are draining our resources. We have to change our approach

www.theguardian.com

 

[Robert Zwilling]

Water has become a very strange situation. Every day, as the frozen stuff around the globe continues to melt it provides more water vapor to make more rain. Some of the extra rain falls where it always did, some places get less rain and some places having gone without a lot of rain are getting way too much, and everything else in between.

If we could collect the extra water and store it everything would be fine. After all, there is more liquid fresh water in the biosphere than there has been for quite some time and more coming in everyday. We can't collect and store the extra water in the quantities needed. And even if it was collected, there is the problem of moving it from where it isn't needed to where it is needed, something else we can't do.

Since the rain knows no borders, it is a global situation, a global problem, and needs a global situation but that isn't going to happen. This leaves local situations, most likely engineering, which cost money, which makes them harder to happen. The easiest thing to do would be to create more inland seas, something that every country could do.

It might be safer to dig a deep hole and pile up the dirt around the edge with a very wide perimeter, letting the hole contain most of the water rather than building up tall narrow wall to contain the water.

Creating new seas certainly seems like there wouldn't be any downsides except for the people who would living at the bottom of the new sea. A good option for the people who would get flooded out would be to give them seaside property and to make sure that they can afford to wait around for the water level to rise to where their new property is. As nice as that is, doubtful that would happen, but a fair price for what they would be losing over a period of years would be easy to do.

As long as the new seas didn't turn into dead zones they should work okay. If there were enough of them they might even be able to absorb some of the rising sea levels temporarily. If they could maintain a good level of rainfall around them that would be a definite positive. It would probably take a few attempts to figure out how big the inlet/outlet would have to be and how big the sea needs to be to be stable.

 

[Harpo]

the future will bring new coastlines, along with everything that involves.

For example, the Great Rift

The great rift: Africa’s splitting plates could give birth to a new ocean, but with consequences

Evacuation of people and the potential loss of lives will be an unfortunate cost of this natural...

www.downtoearth.org.in

 

[Harpo]

Mexico City could be just months away from running out of drinking water

Record droughts have been draining Mexico city's aquifers faster than they can be replenished, placing the city at risk of severe water shortages.

www.livescience.com